03/05/2021
**BUY DIRECT OR SHOP LOCALLY OWNED**
Hey there fellow stationery and small biz supporters. A quick (long) note. If you love stationery and Paper Source is one of your fave places to purchase please reconsider and go to local small shops or buy directly from your favorite artist.
Paper Source recently filed chapter 11 after ordering hundreds of thousands of dollars from I believe 250 small vendors. None of them got paid. Many have several outstanding invoices with little to no hope of payment.
The pandemic has been hard on everyone in so many ways. For these small businesses that survived 2020, getting these large orders in 2021 (some totaling half or more of their total 2020 orders with PS) obviously felt hopeful. They paid their employees, bought the raw goods and churned out these massive orders in a very short turn around time. And now this.
In short please don’t buy their gorgeous, creative, products from PS, they unfortunately won’t see a penny.
BUY DIRECT OR SHOP LOCALLY OWNED.
Image curtesy of Sapling Press, one of 250 businesses impacted.